After more than an hour, everyone talked happily, Wen Yiming took out the meditation incense and the soothing incense, which made Ye Chengyao and Zhai Jianmin shocked, and finally understood why even Geng Baochang was respectful to this young man.

Ling Tiancheng took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Since Ye Lao is also here, everyone's goal is to hold the Ellsyuan special auction next week, then I have an immature suggestion, can we join forces?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, especially Ye Chengyao, who looked at Wen Yiming with interest and nodded secretly. In fact, Geng Baochang has already explained a lot of information, especially the other party's deep family background and billions of local tyrants.

This billions is not ordinary, but the real cash flow is not an illusory stock price and net worth!

After all, Ye Chengyao is more than eighty years old, and the inheritance of so many collections is imminent, and future generations do not like to collect, and they are used to seeing the end of other people's life's work falling apart, so he secretly made up his mind: "I agree, this practice was the most popular among the island people back then, and the collector sent a representative to participate in the auction, and no one else made a move." ”

"When the things come back, the internal auction will be held again, and the highest bidder will get it. It can not only avoid unnecessary internal friction, but also ensure that the boutique remains in the hands of its compatriots. ”

After speaking, he looked at Wen Yiming and asked: "Mr. Gaoyi, young and promising, our generation is old, and we need more capable people to raise the banner, if we don't dislike it, how about our long-term cooperation?"

Wen Yiming naturally agreed, and agreed with a smile, not to mention the more than a hundred pieces of furniture here, even if it is a few times more, it is not too much.

Everyone discussed, this time Wen Yiming came forward to participate in the auction, raised the cards at the end, grabbed all the good things, and then distributed them internally. Anyway, Wen Yiming has a big demand, and those who come do not refuse, it is a big deal to exchange Ye Chengyao's high-quality products, which is not a thing.

Ye Chengyao let out a long breath, and put down the big stone in his heart, no matter what, if his lifelong collection can enter the museum and let future generations understand traditional culture, it is already the best destination.

"For collectors, there are only two possibilities for selling something: one is that the business fails and has to sell, and there are many such examples. Besides, the person you like is gone, and there is no one to take over below, and the children and grandchildren have to be separated, and it is the most convenient to sell these things for money. For true collectors, these things are selected from their favorites, and they are reluctant to give up any of them. ”

"A lot of people ask me what the secret of identification is, and I say that there is really no trick to identification, just look at it a lot, and look at it carefully, and see it clearly. ”

"It's like knowing someone, if you just look at the photos, or listen to the introduction, the description, it's useless! You have to have direct contact with him, everyone has a relationship, and after a while, no matter how much others pretend to be him, you can see that something is wrong, and that's the most important thing. ”

"There's a great deal here that there are hundreds of things to show you at auction every year. Whether you buy it or not, you can pick it up and have a chance to get started. ”

Ye Chengyao suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "I remembered that we also went to the museum to see the treasure back then, but it was not easy. The Forbidden City has the most rules for taking things, the number of people is strictly limited, the level is more strictly defined, and there is a whole set of rules. ”

"Once, Min Qiu Jingshe went to more than a dozen people, and their dean accompanied them to watch things. As a result, after sitting for a long time, only one Kangxi, one Yongzheng and one Qianlong were taken out, just three. ”

At that time, Xu Zhantang was on fire, saying that who didn't have such a lot of things to go so far to see? Mr. Geng sat next to him, blushing very much, and he couldn't get his face off, but he couldn't help it. Before leaving, he patted me on the shoulder and asked us to wait for him at Donghuamen the next day. ”

"The next day we went, and then we saw a Yongle hand cup, a Hongwu glaze red plum bottle with a lid, and a Chenghua bucket color. Mr. Geng said, let's have a good time. At this time, I realized that the Forbidden City has rules, more than how many people, the first-class product can not be taken out, there were too many people yesterday, and the dean was helpless. ”

Everyone laughed, this is a wake-up call, there will be a chance to deal with the Forbidden City in the future, and it is best to have fewer people!

Zhai Jianmin added: "The most important thing is to get started, you can get a lot of high-quality products, and you can feel it immediately as soon as you get it." For example, Kangxi's things, it gives you a particularly heavy feeling, because its structure is very tight and strong. If you pick it up lightly, it's doubtful. ”

Chatting until the evening, everyone made an appointment to participate in the auction a few days later, Wen Yiming and Ling Tiancheng returned to the hotel, and suddenly remembered something, and asked Hei Feng to arrange the next day's itinerary.

"This is 156 Ryoma Road?"

Wen Yiming found a small villa according to the information, the appearance is a little old, and there is a small garden in front of it, which is the former residence of Tan Jing who escaped to Hong Kong Island.

On the eve of liberation in May 1949, Tan Jing came here with calligraphy and painting and served as a director of the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association. Later, he was killed in a driving accident and was imprisoned. After being released on bail, he planned to leave overseas, and in order to raise funds, he sold some of the genuine and fine products at hand, and the proceeds were 600 taels of gold at that time.

Wen Yiming had already inquired before he came, and the current owner here has immigrated to Canada for several years, and the house has been for sale, but the price is high and no one cares.

"Boss Wen, now many big bosses from the mainland have come to invest and settle down, you see that this house is large, and there are independent gardens and garages......"

The real estate agent introduced the house with a lot of words, and took Wen Yiming to visit around, the first one was the study.

Wen Yiming touched the bookshelf and suddenly asked, "Is there a basement here?"

"Yes, there is a basement of more than 100 square meters, which can put sundries, which is very convenient. ”

The two of them came to the basement again, Wen Yiming turned around carefully, and directly decided to buy it.

"You're so happy, 30 million is definitely worth the money!"

After completing the formalities quickly, this officially became Wen Yiming's foothold on Hong Kong Island, sent away the real estate agent, hurriedly walked to the basement, and in a hidden position in the corner of the wall, pressed the mechanism, and a dark grid appeared in front of him.

"I'll just say that Tan Jing, that old fox, can you leave a hand?

Wen Yiming took out the box inside with satisfaction, began to check the loot, first picked up an album, opened it and said excitedly: "The twelve pages of the landscape of Shi Tao, a bitter gourd layman, have passed through the collection of the great collectors of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shouzheng, Hu Xuefan, and Chen. ”

"The album of calligraphy and painting of Zhu Qi, a mountain man, is a total of nine pages. It was collected by Qi Baishi and robbed by Tan Jing at a high price. ”

"Hongren's 1663 landscape album, ten open, painted by his friend Cheng Zhengkui, is very rare in the world. ”

"The remnants of the sea of clouds are twelve peaks, and the old man of Stony Creek treasures ......"

Wen Yiming excitedly studied four albums, all of which were masterpieces, representing the highest level of the four monks in the early Qing Dynasty.

At that time, the northern Qing court regarded the four kings as orthodox, but a group of painters rich in personality appeared in the Jiangnan area, and they were very different from the painting style of the four kings of the northern court who advocated imitation of the ancients. The four monks are the representatives, they are monks, and most of them have a strong national consciousness, among which Shi Tao and Bada Shanren are more descendants of the Ming clan.

Tan Jing is worthy of being a big collector, with a very high taste, and the first calligraphy and painting is a handscroll, but there are too few surviving volumes. Then there are the albums, which best represent the growth of a painter. Because albums are not necessarily drawn at the same time, many of them are collected by collectors over a long period of time, sorting out similar themes or styles, and collecting them, which is particularly rare.

"This is the three bamboo drawings of Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty?"

"And Ni Zhan's "Yushan Forest Gully Map" and Ke Jiusi's "Shangjing Palace Ci"?"

Wen Yiming took out three tightly wrapped paintings, looked at the notes inside, and scolded secretly: "Sure enough, it's a high imitation!"